POLS 503 (Spring 2016)

Repository containing materials for POLS 503: Advanced Quantitative Political Methodology (University of Washington, Spring 2016).

Build

The website is generated from .Rmd files and a Makefile, as described in here. To build the website run

$ make html

To cleanup all the html files

$ make clean

To build whenever a file changes, install watchman and run

$ make watch

To stop watching for file changes

$ make unwatch

To preview the site while working on it, any simple server will work. The simple web server included in the http.server module in Python 3 is one example:

python -m http.server 8000

Configuration

To change the R configuration used in all R documents, edit the .Rprofile file which is loaded whenever R is run in this directory.

To change the R Markdown output configuration, edit _output.yaml. See the R Markdown documentation for more information.

Updating

Lessons

To add a new Lessons

1. Create a new file named lesson_*.Rmd
2. Edit _navbar.html to add the lesson the navigation bar. There is a comment indicating the correction location to add it.